CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2016/E1643. Refactor Suggestion controller

E1643. Refactor and Test Suggestion Controller

This page gives a detail of the OSS project of refactoring and testing the suggestion controller of Expertiza.

Introduction

Expertiza is a Ruby on Rails based open source project. The main motive of this project is to make learning more effective through peer review. This website is a result of combined effort of both students and faculty at NC State, and is used not just by this university but also in many other universities. The website allows students to form teams and work on various projects listed by the instructor and also suggest new topics that seem interesting, though they can opt not to work on them. It also makes it easy for the instructor to add a new topic to an assignment/project, create a new project and add students to it. The time spent by TAs and instructor is greatly reduced. The key feature is peer review, where the students can review the work of others and provide feedback. This helps in improving the existing work and also provides a new way to learn. There isn’t any restriction on the format of submission as it accepts any form of submission varying from URL to wiki pages, which isn’t a common feature in other websites.

Motivation

This provides a great opportunity for the students to learn through collaboration. It provides a chance to contribute to an open source project. One would take back experience of working on Rails, and testing environments like RSpec. Being one of the primary user of Expertiza, students would enhance the functionalities according to their experiences using it and can view their changes implemented real-time.